Insomniac with Dave Attell - Netflix

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Join "tour-guide" Dave Attell as he takes a look at nightlife in
different cities around the country until sunrise.

Type: Talk Show

Languages: English

Status: Ended

Runtime: 30 minutes

Premier: 2001-05-08

Insomniac with Dave Attell - Dave Attell - Netflix

David Attell (born January 18, 1965) is an American stand-up comedian,
actor and writer, best known as the host of Comedy Central's Insomniac
with Dave Attell, which gave him a cult following. Born in Queens, New
York, he grew up in Rockville Centre, New York with his cousins, the
Small family, and now lives in New York City. Patton Oswalt and Bill
Burr have hailed him as the greatest off-color comedian alive.

Insomniac with Dave Attell - Insomniac with Dave Attell - Netflix

Insomniac with Dave Attell was a television series described by Attell
as “Wild on E! for Ugly People”, it featured Attell walking the streets
of America's cities late at night, meeting the people in a haze of
ecstatic inebriation. The show occasionally went overseas. The American
cities featured on the show were Albuquerque, Anchorage, Atlanta, Austin
(2 times), Baltimore, Boise, Boston, Charleston (WV), Charlotte,
Chicago, Cleveland, Columbus, Honolulu, Houston, Kansas City, Key West,
Las Vegas, Little Rock, Long Island, Memphis, Miami, Myrtle Beach,
Nashville, New Orleans, New York City (4 times), Oakland, Philadelphia,
Phoenix, Portland, Reno, San Francisco, and Salt Lake City. The foreign
cities featured on the show were Amsterdam, Dublin, London, Montreal,
Tijuana, Toronto, and specials that took place in Berlin, Rio de
Janeiro, and Tokyo. The most common activity (besides roaming the street
aimlessly and visiting bars) was visiting workers on their night shifts.
Instead of spending time with gas station attendants, he went searching
for odd professions to highlight. Among them were crime-scene cleaners,
bail bondsmen, cow milkers, brothel hookers, bicycle cops, coal miners,
and porn overdubbers. Memorable episodes include a visit to Chicago's
world-famous The Wieners Circle, where the staff routinely got in
cursing matches with their customers, and a visit to a Phoenix nudist
camp. Throughout the run of the show, Attell carried around a
one-time-use film camera and took pictures of random events, which would
be shown during the end-credits.